My torn data pages - Installing Servers on Vista

To be more specific;

• Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

James Kovacs and Virtual PC Guy provide the details per server, aggregated it becomes:

• Internet Information Server
  • Web Management Tools
    • IIS 6 Management Compatibility
      • IIS 6 WMI Compatibility
      • IIS Metabase and IIS 6 configuration comparability
    • IIS Management Console
  • World Wide Web Service
    • Application Development
      • (.NET Extensibility comes with ASP.NET)
      • ASP.Net
      • CGI
      • ISAPI Extension (comes with ASP.NET)
      • ISAPI Filters (comes with ASP.NET)
    • Common HTTP Features
      • Default Document
      • Directory Browsing
      • HTTP Errors
      • HTTP Redirection
      • Static Content
    • Health and Diagnostics
      • HTTP Logging
      • Request Monitor
    • Performance Features
      • Static Content Compression
    • Security
      • (Request Filtering comes with ASP.NET)
      • Windows Authentication

Installing SQL Server 2005 (including SSRS)

Ignore any compatibility warnings, just proceed installation and apply SP2 after installing. During the install you also see a warning about a compatibility issue for Visual Studio (SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio is based on the Visual Studio 2005 Development Environment), you can solve this by installing the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 followed by the Update for Vista.

Now you may have heard about the re-release of SP2, but the only one you can download from Microsoft is the fixed one (available since March 5^th 2007). If you're not sure, read KB-article 933508 how to verify.

Installing Virtual Server 2005 R2

Start the installation of Virtual Server by right-clicking the setup-exe and running it as administrator. If you don't, it pretends IIS is missing (also, it won't detect the IIS portnumber).